“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” - George W. Bush

Thursday, July 29, 2010

HOROSCOPE – Leo (July 23 – August 21)

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie"-

Dorothy Parker, Leo

Quirk said...HOROSCOPE – Leo (July 23 – August 21)

Origin – Fifth sign of the zodiac; named after the Nemean Lion, a heroic beast that got his ass kicked in a fight with Hercules. To commemorate the epic struggle Hera placed the Lion in the heavens and thus we have the constellation of Leo.

Leo Quote (Male) – Barack H. Obama: "Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.”

Leo Quote (Male) – Barack H. Obama: “Why can't I just eat my waffle?”

Leo Quote (Male) – Bill Clinton: “What's a man got to do to get in the top fifty?" (reacting to a survey of journalists that ranked the Monica Lewinsky scandal as the 53rd most significant story of the century)

Leo Quote (Male) – Mick Jagger: “It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

The typical Leo is hard to miss. Bigger than life, they project accordingly. They travel through life at the center of the stage, flamboyant in dress and manner. The most important motivator for the Leo is his own self-image, and that image is a heroic one. This can be both a blessing and a curse. The Leo creates his own mythology. He/she creates an internal, idealized world of black and white, good and evil, with himself as hero at the center of that world. Further he has the motivation, ambition, and energy to bring that world to reality. The defending “Most Interesting Man in the World” is a Leo.

The Leo is courageous and willing to take risks to achieve his aims. His prime motivations are to be the center of attention and to be appreciated. While it may not appear that way to most people, the Leo’s is sometimes shy and introverted and his actions are often meant to compensate for the fact that he is terrified of being perceived as mediocre, or left unnoticed or unappreciated. He/she desperately needs love and affection and the applause of the crowd. Leos make good managers, chefs, politicians, knights and dictators. Recent surveys indicate that a disproportionate percentage of actors and bungee jumpers are Leos.

In relationships, the Leo is magnanimous. He is a romantic and he can make the person he loves feel the beauty of that romance, at least for a while. However, the Leo is a romantic and sometimes, because it fits more with his own self-generated mythology, is more in love with the concept of love than with any specific partner. This often leads to tension and/or masturbation. If the partner rebukes him because of this, the Leo is usually dumfounded and dejected having never realized that caught up in his own vision he was causing pain to another. That’s why it is important for the Leo to choose a relationship with a compatible astrological sign. To do otherwise can lead to disaster. Mary Jo Kopechne, fatality and Leo, should have avoided her relationship with that Pisces politician. Just saying.

The Leo sees himself as the hero of life’s story and is unwilling to share the spotlight. Likewise, in the idealized mythology the Leo creates for himself he is concerned with great things and cannot be bothered with the mundane and banal. Unfortunately, he assumes that others will without complaint handle the small stuff and pick up after him. It was a Leo that invented the position of “booze lackey”.

The typical Leo is an idea guy. He would rather be the “Big Fish in a small pond” than vice versa. He is willing to invest whatever it takes to bring his vision to reality. This means he often attains significant material success. However, it can often also lead to heroic failures. The concept of the “See-through Burqa” was developed by a Leo. However, while it achieved significant critical acclaim when first introduced on the Paris runways, it for some reason never became a commercial success.

Bold and flamboyant, Leo’s are the demigods of the astrological universe. Unfortunately, in many senses they are walking anachronisms. In today’s world, reality intrudes on their romantic vision. The heyday of the Leo Age peaked in France sometime near the end of the 15th Century.

Appropriate Leo Pets – Leo pets should reflect the personality of their owner. They should be flamboyant, impressive, and exotic. Appropriate Leo pets could include peacocks, Komodo dragons, and griffins. Cats are surprisingly inappropriate pets for the Leo. For while they share the Leo’s haughty arrogance, they are also self-centered and independent and incapable of giving the Leo the appreciation and attention he covets.

This year is expected to offer a mixed bag for the typical Leo.

• People consider Leo the Divine Child of the zodiac. The Sun shines upon you and you are basically just a kid at heart. Unfortunately, this will not prevent you from being tried as an adult later this month.

• A slight crack in the door of your microwave will result in microwave leakage sufficient to give you the tumor-growing capability of 20 normal people thus assuring you another slot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

• At this year’s Renaissance Festival, you will receive a broken collar bone when hit by a huge, overly –done drumstick in a fight with another Leo over who deserves to be called King of the Festival. The state police and local swat team will be called in when the conflict spreads as people dressed in Star Wars regalia enter into a food fight with World of War proponents and New Agers. A number of police will be injured by flying crystals.

• At the annual Christmas party, forgetting to disconnect the lamp while reaching for the lampshade results in a spectacular conflagration which achieves to an unexpected degree your goal of becoming the center of attention.

Next Month: Virgo (monthly personalized horoscopes available by request)

Other ServicesWe have a number of exciting announcements to make this month regarding our exclusive Palm Reading Service.

Starting this month, Dr. Antonio Cicerellioni, prior head hand surgeon at the Granada Institute of Orthopedic Hand Surgery, is joining our staff at the Palm Reading Institute. Dr. Cicerellioni pioneered the groundbreaking “carpal tunnel expansion” technique used to extend life lines and expand love lines. We will now be offering these exclusive services to our clients.

For the coming month, anyone who signs up for one of these services will be entered into a contest to win a full week, all-inclusive vacation at the Welcoming Arms Resort located in Lily Dale, New York on the shores of lovely Cassadaga Lake. Lily Dale, medium capital of the world, “the town where no one dies”, is recognized as the place where knowledge and enlightenment converge in ways that deepen faith and heighten awareness. The energy of the universal life force can be felt, experienced and developed in this serene 19th century lakeside community surrounded by towering, old-growth forest. It’s an experience that can’t be missed in this lifetime (or the next). This is the perfect chance to visit with family and friends you never thought you would hear from again.

Sign up for either of our new services and you will automatically be entered to win this dream trip to Lily Dale.

However, there are no losers at Souls R Us.

Anyone purchasing any of our many services this month will receive a gift certificate for a half hour session at our nationally franchised oxygen bar, To Air is Human.

• As always, discounts on our full range of services are available to the Rosicrucian brotherhood (secret handshake required).

Because of time and space constraints we don’t usually present any expanded horoscopes. However, this month we were presented with a request for some comments on people with Leo ascendant; therefore, being a slave to the whims of the EB Muses, I offer the following:

[Note: Please remember that horoscopes merely highlight tendencies and potentials. Any particular person may be molded and shaped by other planetary influences and may never fully exhibit all the typical traits associated with his/her Sun Sign.]

LEO ASCENDANT

Leo ascendant individuals typically share many of the Leo’s more obvious characteristics. You can’t help but notice them. They are flamboyant, energized, spontaneous, very conscious of their appearance especially their hair, and are always seeking to be the center of attention. They are usually the life of the party and jealous of sharing the spotlight. However, when things don’t go their way, look out. The resulting temper tantrums can produce a lot of collateral damage.

Women who are Leo ascendant typically have cute toes. Because they share the Leo’s flamboyant nature, they will often adorn them with bright red polish even though some people who are not necessarily Leo ascendant might offer the suggestion that a more muted hue might be more attractive.

The appropriate scent for the Leo ascendant woman would be a perfume or a subtler eau de parfum drawn from the Creed line of fragrances. However, while the true LEO wouldn’t think twice about purchasing the Creed brand, the Leo ascendant individual might be swayed by the more practical aspects of her own sign and forego the extravagance. Of course, it doesn’t hurt to offer birthday suggestions.

118 comments:

Teresita said...WP: "The term Semite means a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Arabs, and Ethiopian Semites."

Wed Jul 28, 08:36:00 PM EDT

Not your best, T. I addressed your incorrect use of the term "anti-Semite", which has a specific origin and purpose.

Allen, it's one thing for the Jews to stake out their claim to the land based on boundaries written in a scroll that the Jews invented, but surely you will not defer to the incorrect use of the name for the Semites by the same Nazis that invented the "Aryan" race. By seizing control of the language, one can divert a rational opposition to Zionism into opposition against a whole ethnicity, anywhere in the diaspora, which is what the far worse enemies of Israel do in the UN when they spout the Zionism = Racism mantra.

While I may be challenged by linguistics, I do know a auto-de-fe of anti-Semites when I see one.

For the record, the term "anti-Semite" was coined in Germany by Wilhelm Marr in 1879.

Since I'm off to work, I do not have time to enumerate the multitude of times the phrase "anti-Semitic, etc" have been misused at the EB. Had I a dollar for each occurrence, I would not be heading off to work today.

One final thought, DR: no matter the etymology and epistemology of “anti-Semite”, you are one, enabled by less reckless members of the EB.

“The conclusion is unmistakable – yes, the planet is warming,” said Derek Arndt, a co-editor of the report, called State of the Climate, which was published by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA.

“The facts speak for themselves, and speak simultaneously,” said Mr. Arndt, who runs the Climate Monitoring Branch at NOAA. “And, they all point toward the same conclusion – the globe is warming.”

The report – co-edited by researchers in the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia – pulled together data from 10 climate indicators measured by 160 research groups in 48 countries. The scientists compared the figures decade by decade as far back as possible, more than 100 years in some cases. They concluded 2000 to 2009 was the warmest decade ever, and the Earth has been growing warmer for 50 years. Each of the past three decades – 1980s, 1990s and 2000s – was the hottest on record, the researchers said.

This year is shaping up to be even warmer. For the first six months of 2010, the combined global land and ocean temperature was the warmest on record, according to the NOAA.

After Abram had checked out the land as he was told to do, he built his third altar to Yahweh in Hebron, which in modern times, like Beitin, is another West Bank town populated by Palestinian Arabs. They too are the children of Abram by blood, not only the Jews. Their presence in Canaan fulfills Yahweh's promise to give this land to Abram's seed every bit as much as the presence of Israelis Jews does.

A religion that claims to come from a LOST tribe of Jews... (nonsense)

What does Mormonism say about Gays..

Mormons Bankroll Anti–Gay Marriage Amendments in California, ArizonaThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has mobilized followers to give an estimated 77% of the total donations that have come in to support California's proposed gay marriage ban, Proposition 8. Californians Against Hate released figures Tuesday showing that $17.67 million was contributed by 59,000 Mormon families since August to groups like Yes on 8. Contributions in support of Prop. 8 total $22.88 million.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has mobilized followers to give an estimated 77% of donations to support California's proposed marriage ban.

Californians Against Hate released figures Tuesday showing that $17.67 million was contributed by 59,000 Mormon families since August to groups like Yes on 8. Contributions in support of Prop. 8 total $22.88 million. Additionally, the group reports that Mormons have contributed $6.9 million to pass a a similar law, Proposition 102, in Arizona.

"It is a staggering amount of money and an even more staggering percentage of the overall campaign receipts," Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate said in a press release. "The Mormon Church, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has hijacked the campaigns in both California and Arizona, where voters face constitutional amendments to end same-sex marriage."

Karger said Californians Against Hate came up with the figures by cross-referencing donor information from the California secretary of state with Brigham Young University alumni lists, church memberships, and other personal documentation that could identify Mormon Church members. He said the surge in support has been an attempt to boost the church's social standing among the greater religious community.

"For whatever reason, they're trying to get some respect from other religions," he told The Advocate Tuesday. "They've always been looked down upon by the Christians, the Catholics, and evangelicals."

Success with the marriage amendment would give the church credibility, Karger said.

The Latter-day Saints Church says it has approximately 770,000 members in California, accounting for about 2% of the state's population. Senior church elders broadcast a call to Mormons October 8 for increased volunteer efforts and donations for the marriage fight. The hour-long message went out to churches in Utah, Hawaii, and Idaho as well as California.

Members of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, the second-highest church governing body, explained their plan to pass the ballot initiative. They asked each California congregation to commit 30 volunteers to donate four hours a week to Proposition 8. They also urged young people to use technology -- such as social networks, text messaging, and blogging -- to spread the word. (Michelle Garcia, The Advocate)

Trish, I know that dance is not something that excites you anyway but I thought of you last night every step of the way in this piece. It expresses a loved one going off to war. Watch the whole thing you'll be surprised at the end. Amazing choreography.

You would be glad to know that the annual audit put out by the ADL reported a 10% decrease nationally in anti-Semitic incidents from 1,352 in 2008 to 1,211 in 2009. Locally in the Delaware Valley there were 68 anti-Semitic incidents in 2009 down from 97 incidents in 2008.

And for the second year in a row Phila ranked 5th in the country in the number of incidents.

It's sad to read that a middle school in a surrounding county (we're talking middle school now, 6th, 7th and 8th grade) had an incident where they had "kick a Jew day" unfuckingbelievable.

I sse I inadvertently posted as anon, it happens when you have two or three people behind you.

I have checked out the Boise River, I'll be fishing on the Boise State University campus tomorrow morning, early. Great little river to inner tube, if you're a kid.

Catch this, Hillary and Bill didn't invite the obama's to Chel's wedding. What can this posssibly mean, to an alert observer? hint, hint

My daughter's driving drives me nuts. She refuses to put her right hand on the top of the steering wheel, like a normal person, rather left hand, three fingers, controls from the bottom of the wheel, resulting in swaying back and forth. Further, she follows too close, and, coming down the Payette River road she hits the 35 mph curves going in at about 55. I'm a wreck, nerve wise.

Rafters on the Salmon, kyakers on the Payette, which in places, is pure white water, and extreme sport.

Tomoorw: very late lunch, dinner really, with niece Emily and friend.

The Basques, according to the suppliment in the paper, have created some interesting drinks. Which I'll describe later, as someone wants to use the house computer, lurking behind me.

I want some of that love potion made from a flower, (pansy, I think) as described in "Aa Midsummer's Night's Dream'

Stuff seems to work, after all Tatiana, I think it was, fell in lover with Bottom.

It’s worth noting that the battery plant where the Volt’s batteries are being made is the one where Obama called out Pete Hoekstra for attending. Yeah, the same plant that just created 150 jobs at $500k a pop. So taxpayers are paying $500,000 per job to produce $10,000 batteries that will be installed in a car that nobody is going to buy. This is the new “green economy”, and a 3rd grader with an abacus can tell you that this is “unsustainable”. And this administration is shocked by the persistently high unemployment? “If you build it, he will come” is not a good economic policy.

Quirkie, I'm ashamed of you, peddling that horo crap like you do. And too think I almost swooned for you. I may have been mee'me the ho, but I'm matriculated now, all by my own choice. Whoroscopes be damned.

"SEC Says New Financial Regulation Law Exempts it From Public Disclosure

So much for transparency.

Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

The law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts the SEC from disclosing records or information derived from "surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities." Given that the SEC is a regulatory body, the provision covers almost every action by the agency, lawyers say. Congress and federal agencies can request information, but the public cannot."

I've just met the nicest guy, one of my dotter's friends from Boise State University. Hit it off, right off, he fly fishes. He confirms my judgement, and he's a geologist student/fly fisherman, and he tells me, Boise State University campus is the place for it, in town, less you want drive out of town, which I don't. Nobody fishes it, cause the boys here are concentrated on the girls, and football, cept for this nice fellow. This is a few blocks away from the Capitol Building. A forgotten urban risheries.

I'll try to write a poem about it, cause the river is me, and Quirk too, according to the interpretation of the buddha, in dotter's buddha books I am reading, for nothing else to do.

Gotama would tell Quirk, it is not helpful, it is not skillful, to fill the airwaves with such errant nonsense. It does not conduce to liberation.

Not that I exactly believe that myself.

What pisses me off about Karen Armstrong, the author of this book, is she has such a soft spot for the muzzies. She simply has a blind spot there, but doesn't or can't admit it. She doesn't want to face the facts. Other than that, she knows her stuff.

There is an excellent few pages about Gotama under the Rose Apple tree, in his youth, which reminded me of the descriptions by Theodore Roethke of some expeeriences in his youth. Not that anyone cares, save me and my dotter.

The buddha sat under two trees, not one. The Rose Apple tree in his youth, the introduction. and the bo tree, facing east, later in life, the consumation.

Royal Caochman or nymph first, that is the overwhelming question, for tomorrow morning.

Senate Republicans blocked a measure that would cut taxes and ease credit for small businesses, saying they objected that Democrats refused to consider their amendments to extend expiring tax breaks.

The Senate voted 58-42 today to end debate on the bill, falling short of the 60 votes required to consider the legislation for passage.

“Once again a common-sense bill that would help Americans is being held hostage by political calculation,” Senator Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, said in debate before the vote.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said he would work with Republicans today to seek a compromise on amendments to the measure. The legislation was aimed at easing terms for loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, providing $12 billion in tax breaks and issuing grants to states to provide business loans.

It would have provided $30 billion to banks with less than $10 billion in assets to encourage lending to small businesses. The cost of paying back those capital infusions would decline based on the level of small-business lending by the bank. The aid could spur $300 billion in lending.

“The lack of credit for small businesses is a problem that needs to be addressed,” Shelby said during Senate debate last week. “I do not, however, believe that we should try and solve this problem with another expensive and bureaucratic government program.”

Here in Michigan, we have our own little brouhaha going regarding the Tea Party.

As in the rest of the country, the Tea Party here is a movement not an official party. Well, not an official party until recently that is.

A whole bank of cadidates recently filed as candidates for the Tea Party. This required setting up an official Tea Party. Now we have five parties here, GOP, DEMS, No-TAX Party, Some Other Guys (maybe Libertarian), and the new Tea Party.

The actual Tea Party movement in the state is up in arms and is seeking leagal redress. DEMS are facing a tough fight here this fall. The Tea Party movement says the move is merely an attempt to confuse the voters. They accuse the Democratic party of dirty tricks.

Seems all the candidates that have filed are Dem hacks. The guy who organized to register the party is a Dem operative and major player here. It cost about $120,000 so far to set up the party. The Dems deny any involvement.

"Gotama would tell Quirk, it is not helpful, it is not skillful, to fill the airwaves with such errant nonsense. It does not conduce to liberation."

What bullshit Bob. The last time I visited Lily Dale, I met up with Gotama briefly during a speed-dating exercise. They assigned me a young medium, obviously inexperienced, who was supposed to hook me up with Marilyn Monroe for a 10 minute session (I later found out she ended up on the other side of the room.) Anyway this little shit ends up channelling Gotama (he prefers to be called Gautama by the way and by the end of the session I was calling him Sidd). Anyway the little mix-up was initially a little embarrassing for all three of us, but we decided, what the hell, let's do this.

His regional dialect was a little difficult for me to get past, but we eventually had an interesting talk. Interesting guy. And funny. At times we were laughing our asses off.

But back to the point. The guy kinda dominated the conversation with all his proselytizing for the Bahai faith, but I was able to slip in a few words about what we've been doing over at Souls R Us. He was very supportive.

Said since he's been away he has had time to do a lot of thinking and is reavaluating a lot of his previous views.

"“The lack of credit for small businesses is a problem that needs to be addressed,” Shelby said during Senate debate last week. “I do not, however, believe that we should try and solve this problem with another expensive and bureaucratic government program.”

Shelby is a dick and I have to agree with your assessment of the GOP and DEMS Ruf. However, even if his actual rationale is a bunch of bull, his point about the expanding bureaucracy is a legitimate on.

Take the recent FinReg legislation. It requires that banks have to take women and minority interest into account in there hiring practices. To monitor this the FEDS will be setting up 20new regional boards to monitor the bank's performance.

Worse, the legislation merely establishes broad outlines. Once the actual rules are written by the bureaucracy no telling where we will end up.

...so far — while it's important to acknowledge that the long-term potential danger is simply unknowable for an underwater event that took place just three months ago — it does not seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage. "The impacts have been much, much less than everyone feared," says geochemist Jacqueline Michel, a federal contractor who is coordinating shoreline assessments in Louisiana.

This is shaping up as one of the defining arguments of the fall elections:The nascent US economic recovery would be halted in 2011 if Congress fails to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, analysts at Deutsche Bank said.

BAGHDAD – Militants flew an al-Qaida flag over a Baghdad neighborhood Thursday after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack that served as a grim reminder of continued insurgent strength in Iraq's capital.

It was the bloodiest attack in a day that included the deaths of 23 Iraqi soldiers, policemen and other security forces across the country who were targeted by shootings and roadside bombs.

So you can call anti-Semitism anti-Judaism, if you want to, but it is not English that you'd be speaking.

But Zionist spin.

Or rehashed German.

But for you and yours to misuse the English language, that does not make it viable nor meaningful.Just more propaganda, spin and smoke. To confuse the issue of Europeons, Russians mostly, colonizing the Eastern Med, without just cause or justice to the locally born inhabitants.

Now, this is what I like: no namby-pamby gobbledygook; no conflation of Zionist/Israeli/Jew/Semite. No, sir: no failure to communicate here, just straight from the hip race baiting. Someone from the EB needs to reach out to this gentleman and let him know he is not alone against all that Jew money.

The only thing you might have right, O Quirk, O Nobly Born, is the universe has a memeory, better than the internet, much better, a memory that glues your very thoughts, much less what you say, and do, even your thoughts always being there, as yours.

Sleep tight with this thought.

Meditate upon that in your consciousness, O Nobly Born.

Charlie Rangel, affable crook, never considered this.

It's popularily called the bite of conscience.

By the way, T., how can you be an agnostic Taoist, as Taoism is an expression of the old Perennial Philosophy, which was built upon experience and knowing? Often quite wide openings are granted to quite small children in such an outlook, and taken seriously.

You'll find a discussion of such matters in William James 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'.

Noboby sound wants a drab unknowing, a fake agnosticism.

People yearn for the real thing. That's why they drink, and do drugs, trying to get out of themselves in an impossible way.

They are speaking Spanish, or Axtec or Mayan, all around me now, but it ain't American English. I am retreating to my room.Since they are dressed nicely, it's possible they are Basque. I'm still retreating to my room, the day is far gone and done for me, goodnight.

The level of prosperity, in Gaza, is another false construct, more spin from the Israeli propaganda machine.

The level of prosperity, or the litany of materials allowed into Gaza, is meaningless to the issue. Which is, of course, the Israelis continued violation of the Geneva Accords, a gross violation of civilized and legal behavior. A benevolent despot, is still a despot.

A nice illegal, is still an illegal, I've heard that, here at the Bait Shop, more than once.

Oooooh...Now, I get it: The Egyptian reporter is part of the vast Israeli-Egyptian ME propaganda machine...How very clever of you to have picked up on the Jew duplicity so quickly. Fortunately, we have you and Quirk to keep us up to speed on the latest conspiracies.

Haven't been here in awhile. Skimmed the last 4 posts and comments. Reminds me of what a doc friend of mine here in ATL told me that one of the male med tech's said in the middle of surgery one day. True story. This was not just any med tech, but a former ATL Falcon professional football player, offensive lineman. That means he was a big fucker - towered over the rest of the staff. Also a midwestern white dude. So, the doc tells me that the surgical team was way up there on the diversity scale - gays, lesbians, white, black, asian, tatoos, nose-rings, lip-studs, etc. Not exactly what the footballer grew up with in Iowa or wherever he was from out there in the Midwest. Right in the middle of a heart catheterization procedure, one of the "others" (meaning non-white, non-heterosexual) made a comment referring to his or her lifestyle. This big dude looks down at my doc friend and deadpanned, "Doc, this is a hell of a sociology experiment you got going on in here...I hope your patient survives it."

Regarding that missing oil spill, I believe i was the first to say that nature would take care of itself, that the ocean was a giant washing machine, with a link to the Saudi spill that dwarfed this one and for which nary a trace could be found a few years later.

The Bar's rat, as he so often does, climbed high on his pile of garbage to ridicule that assertion. Wrong, as usual.

One other thing I probably should tell you because if we don't they'll probably be saying this about me too, we did get something-a gift-after the election. A man down in Texas heard my wife on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog. And, believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was. It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he'd sent all the way from Texas.

Black and white spotted. And our little girl-Topeka, the 6-year old-named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, alignment is a categorization of the ethical and moral perspective of people, creatures and societies.

Early editions of Dungeons & Dragons allowed players to choose between three alignments when creating a character: lawful, implying honor and respect for society's rules; chaotic, implying the opposite; and neutral, meaning neither. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons introduced a second axis of good, neutral and evil, offering a combination of nine alignments.[1][2]

The nine alignments can be represented in a grid, as follows:Lawful Good Neutral Good Chaotic GoodLawful Neutral Neutral Chaotic NeutralLawful Evil Neutral Evil Chaotic Evil

This schema of nine alignments was used throughout the first and second editions of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, as well as the successor game, the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons. The fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons, released in 2008, reduces the number of alignments to five: lawful good, good, unaligned, evil, and chaotic evil.

Such entirely rebel-run territories are key to Maoist plans, according to their training manuals. The CRPF estimates 1,500 to 2,000 guerillas come to the forests each year to learn modern weaponry, and children as young as 16 are trained in AK- 47s and rocket launchers. In April 2005, November 2006 and March 2007, Maoists attacked two armories and a police station, killing 55 people and carrying off 730 rifles and 28,000 rounds of ammunition.

‘Safeguard Your Weapons’

“Safeguard your weapons like your life,” reads page 52 of a 200-page manual the CRPF took from a village in 2008. “The enemy must be finished, his weapons seized and he must be made powerless.”

So, where is this wild, and dangerous place? Afghanistan? Pakistan? Uzbekistan? Bhutan?

Try, India>

Right in the middle of the most resource-rich area of S. Asia, if not the world is a huge area devoid of law. In revolt.

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.